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Hybrid speciation via inheritance of alternate alleles of parental isolating genes.
Molecular plant - 1 Feb 2021
Wang Zefu, Jiang Yuanzhong, Bi Hao, Lu Zhiqiang, Ma Yazhen, Yang Xiaoyue, Chen Ningning, Tian Bin, Liu Bingbing, Mao Xingxing, Ma Tao, DiFazio Stephen P, Hu Quanjun, Abbott Richard J, Liu Jianquan
Abstract excerpt
It is increasingly realized that homoploid hybrid speciation (HHS), which involves no change in chromosome number, is an important mechanism of speciation. HHS will likely increase in frequency as ecological and geographical barriers between species are continuing to be disrupted by human activities. HHS requires the establishment of reproductive isolation between a hybrid and its parents, but the underlying...
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